Rafaela would have said her heart had already been racing, but it leapt again when Arturius smiled with satisfaction and the outer airlock door on the station opened. For a moment the command to disengage from the station hovered on her lips again, but even if they could still do that, now Doris was standing in the docking area that would be depressurized.
She panicked silently, frozen into immobility. An alarm went off outside the ship, overwriting the words that Arturius tried to say to Doris, and he shoved his device back into his bag and turned to step into the airlock tube.
"I have notified the station about the break in," her ship announced calmly, free of the emotions that paralyzed her. "And you can be assured that they cannot open my own locks with such a device."
